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Directions: In this ction there are ven passage followed by ten multiple-choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet.
TEXT E First read the question. 51. In the passage Bill Gates mainly discuss ____. A. a persons opportunity of a lifetime B. the success of the computer industry C. the importance of education D. high school education in the US Now go though Text E quickly to answer question 51. Hundreds of students nd me e-mail each year asking for advice about education. They want to know what to study, or whether its OK to drop out of college since thats what I did. My basic advice is simple and heartfelt. "Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn." Its true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out ——and Id love to have the time to go back. As Ive said b桃胶的功效与作用
efore, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider. The computer industry has lots of people who didnt finish college, but Im not aware of any success stories that began with somebody dropping out of high school. I actually dont know any high school dropouts, let alone any successful ones. In my companys early years we had a bright part-time programmer who threatened to drop out of high school to work full-time. We told him no. Quite a f
ew of our people didnt finish college, but we discourage dropping out. College isnt the only place where information exists. You can learn in a library. But somebody handing you a book doesnt automatically foster learning. You want to learn with other people, ask questions, try out ideas and have a way to test your ability. It usually takes more than just a book. Education should be broad, although its fine to have deep interests, too. In high school there were periods when I was highly focud on writing software, but for most of my high school years I had wide-ranging academic interests. My parent encouraged this, and Im grateful that they did. One parent wrote me that her 15-year old son "lost himlf in the hole of the computer." He got an A in Web site design, but other grades were sinking, she said. This boy is making a mistake. High school and college offer you the best chance to learn broadly —— math, history, various sciences —— and to do projects with other kids that teach you firsthand about group dynamics. Its fine to take a deep interest in computers, dance, language or any other discipline, but not if it jeopardizes bword图标
readth. In college its appropriate to think about specialization. Getting real experti in an area of interest can lead to success. Graduate school is one way to get specialized knowledge. Choosing a specialty isnt something high schools students should worry about. They should worry about getting a strong academic start. There is not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high schools and success in later life, of cour. But its a real mistake not to take opportunity to learn a huge range of subjects. to 磊科路由器
learn to work with people in high school, and to get the grades that will help you get into
a good college.
51. In the passage Bill Gates mainly discuss ____.
A) a person's opportunity of a lifetime
B) the success of the computer industry
C) the importance of education
D) high school education in the US
TEXT F First read the questions. 52. The passage focus on ____. A. the history and future of London B. Londons manufacturing skills C. Londons status as a financial center D. the past and prent roles of London Now go through TEXT F quickly to answer question 52. What is London for? To put the question another way why was London, by 1900, incomparably the largest city in the world, which it remained until the bombardments of the Luftwaffe? There could be many answers to this question, but any history of London will rehear three broad explanations. One is the importance of its life as a port. When the Thames turned to ice in February 1885, 50,000 men were put out of work, and there were bread riots from the who livelihoods had been frozen with the riv
er. Today the Thames could be frozen for a year without endangering the livelihoods of any but a few pleasure boatmen. The cond major cau of Londons we男人尻女人
alth and success was that it was easily the biggest manufacturing center in Europe. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Dutch looms and the stocking knitting frame were first pioneered in London. The vast range of Londons manufacturing skills is another fact; almost any item you can name was manufactured in London during the days of its prosperity. In 1851, 13.75 percent of the manufacturing work-force of Great Britain was bad in London. By 1961, this had dramatically reduced. By 1993, there were a mere 328,000 Londoners engaged in manufacturing. In other words, by our own times, two of the chief reasons for Londons very existence —— its life as a port and as a center of manufacture —— had dwindled out of existence. Londons third great function, since the venteenth century, has been that of national and international bour: the exchange of stocks and shares, banking, commerce and, increasingly, insurance. Both Inwood and Francis Sheppard, in London: A history, manage to make the potentially dry matters vivid to the general reader, and both authors assure us that "The City" in the financial n is st梦到自己生孩子了是什么预兆
ill as important as ever it was. Both, however, record the diminution of the City as arc积极向上的英文
hitectural and demographic entity, with the emptying of many city offices (since the advent of the computer much of the work can be done anywhere) and the removal distinctive landmarks.
52. The passage focus on ____.
A) the history and future of London
B) London's manufacturing skills
C) London's status as a financial center
D) the past and prent roles of London
TEXT G First read the question. 53. The primary purpo of the passage is to ____. A. discuss the impact of the internet B. forecast the future roles of the bookstore C. compare the publisher with the editor D. evaluate the limitation of the printed page Now go through TEXT G quickly to answer question 53. Since the advent of television people have been prophesying the death of the book. Now the ri of the World Wide Web ems to have revived this smoldering controversy from the ashes. The very existence of paper copy had been brought into question once more. It might be the bookstore, rather than the book itlf, that is on the brink of extinction. Many of you will have noted lots of bookller websites popping up. They provide lists of books and let you read sample chapters, reviews from other customers and interviews with authors. What does all this mean? Brow
sing a virtual bookstore may not afford you the same dusty pleasure as browsing round a real shop, but as far as rvice, price and convenience are concerned, there is really no competition. This may change before long, as publishers websites begin to offer direct access to new publications. Perhaps it is actually the publisher who is endangered by the relentless advance of the Internet. There are a remarkable number of sites republishing texts online ——an extensive virtual library of materials that ud to be handled primar重点的近义词
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oks as if this virtual library is here to say unless a propod revision to copyright law takes many publications out of the public domain. However, can electronic texts still be considered books? 四年级作文小小动物园
Then again, it might be the editor at risk, in danger of being cut out of the publishing process. The web not only makes it possible for just about anyone to publish whatever they like —— whenever they like —— there are virtually no costs involved. The editors would then be the millions of Internet urs. And there is little censorship, either. So possibly is the printed page, with its many limitations, that is perishing as the implications of new technologies begin to be the fully realized. Last year Stanford University published the equivalent of a 6,000-page Business English dictionary online. There em to be quite obvious benefits to housing the multi-volume reference ts on the Web. The perceived benefits for other books, such as the novel, are perhaps less obvious.
53. The primary purpo of the passage is to ____.
A) discuss the impact of the internet
B) forecast the future roles of the bookstore
C) compare the publisher with the editor
D) evaluate the limitation of the printed page
